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LORD CROMER'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW: VISCOUNTESS ERRINGTON

... . Lady Errington is the wife of Major Viscount Errington, M.B.E., who served in the Grenadier Guards and is now in Baring's Bank and daughter of the second Viscount Rothermere. During the war she worked as a nurse with the St. John's Ambulance, and also in a canteen. Lady Errington has a daughter, Lana, born in 1943, who is learning dancing a son, Evelyn, born last year. Most of her time now ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 113 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DESIGNER FOR MANON--JAMES BAILEY

... DESIGNER FOR MANON --JAMES BAILEY. Last year James Bailey scored an outstanding success with his enchanting treatment of a new produc ion d 44 Giselle this year comes forward again with his first designs for opera. He has brought to the stn-.e set and lovely costumes for Massenet's Manon, which opened at Covent Garden last Thursday, that same r ...

ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHT-FILM PRODUCER PETER USTINOV

... ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHT- FILM PRODUCER PETER USTINOV. At sixteen Peter Ustinov left Westminster School with L very definite ideas as to a career. .After training I under Michel Saint-Denis he had parts in several West End straight plays went into the Army in 1942, but at times acted and produced plays for garrison theatres. The critics found his plays, House of I Regrets and 44 The Banbury Nose, ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The Farmers Come To Town: Points from Speeches

... The Farmers Come To Town Points from Speeches Sir Richard Livingstone Proposing the toast of Agricul ture, he said he could do so with more confidence than was possible ten years ago. After referring to agriculture's raw deal between the wars. Sir Richard paid tribute to the industry's immense task following the outbreak of hostilities and said he felt that the importance of agriculture had ...

The Fence of Hairs

... OOUTH AFRICA has the climate and the soil for cotton, particu- larly in the 20,000 square miles east of the Drakensberg, but the depredations of the Jassid have ruined those who put their hopes in white gold. Now new hopes for Union cotton have been born again through the evolution of the fence, against which the hungry jassid, with its long proboscis, rampages in vain. Many years' work went ...

The World's Greatest Steeplechase

... ttl THE Grand National will be decided at Aintree, Liverpool, on Friday, March 28. It is ex pected that the field will be of a higher class than has been seen since before the war, and Mr. J. V. Rank's fine jumper, Prince Regent, will have more formidable rivals than was the case last year. Some of the more prominent candidates, and successful cross-country riders, are shown, in portraits and ...

Welsh Victory at Murrayfield

... Welsh Victory at Murray field WALES, giving a first-class display, beat Scotland by 22 points to 8 points at Murrayfield, after being 2 points behind at the interval. The Welsh forwards had much to do with their team's atonement for its recent failure against England at Cardiff. Their attacks increased in vigour as time passed, and the Scotsmen had three tries scored against them in the last ...

A Good Class Grand National Field

... B) THE Grand National is due to be run on Friday, March 28, which is exactly six weeks distant. The ac ceptance of 74 has naturally led to the assumption that the field will be of unusually heavy proportions-- the record 'field was in 1929, when Gregalach beat 65 opponents. Qualifying conditions were subsequently introduced with the object of keeping fields down, but this year, with so many ...

Don'ts for Golfers

... ALONG with the rules and the etiquette of the game goes the sort of advice I am going to give here to help to make the complete golfer. There is not a single golfer playing who would not benefit in some way at some time from recalling these words of wisdom, or should it be words of plain common-sense ? wnen au tnese things are written down tney ao seem ele mentary, but I am not sure that at ...

Hot Meals Economy of Time and Fuel

... Hot Meals Economy of Time I and Fuel FA-NEAT HOTMEAL CABINET is heated by a single gas jet thermostatically controlled, and its average running cost is ijd.for twelve hours. It is perfectly safe to leave a casserole meal to cook unattended and has been de signed chiefly as an adjunct to the cooker, for the woman who has to be away from home during the day. It is finished in white enamel, lined ...

GEO. W. KING LTD

... KING COWSTALLS AKin W ATP R ROWIQ For years, King have specialised in building and aquipping farm buildings of all descriptions. Above photograph shows a Cowshed constructed and arected by King. Completely equipped with King Bowstalls and Water Bowls, it is typical of many such buildings erected or equipped by King throughout the country. Photograph on right is }f a King Camlock Water Bowl. ...